NIC – National Informatics Centre Ludhiana

About NIC

NIC District Centre Ludhiana came into existence in November 1988 at Room No.125, First Floor, District Administrative Complex, Ludhiana. Since then, it has been providing various IT related services to State / Central Government departments in the district.

Objective of NIC

The long term objective of the National Informatics Centre, as approved by the Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance and the erstwhile Electronics Commission, had been to establish the feasibility of a system for the provision of detailed information to government ministers and agencies to assist them in making decisions relating to the country’s economic and social development, planning and program implementation. NIC was set up with the aforementioned objective to promote economic, social, scientific and technological activities, and also for macro-economic adjustments program of the Government, through the applications of Information Technology (I.T.)

Projects:

District Website

The present web site of district Ludhiana is fully revamped on the basis of S3Waas platform. This website was launched by the Worthy Deputy Commissioner of Ludhiana on dated 21-08-2018. Site has been designed and developed by NIC District Unit Ludhiana.

E-Office :

The e-Office system is an integrated file and records management system that allows employees to manage content, search for data internally and collaborate. The file system also enables the electronic movement and the tracking of files, and the archival and retrieval of data.

Various Modules of E-Office implemented in selective branchs of Deputy Commissioner Office Ludhiana.

iHRMS :

iHRMS is an Integrated Human Resource Management System. NIC imparted training to more than 200 employees of different deprtments and technical support provided from time to time for the successful implementation of iHRMS.

Aadhar Enabled Bio Metric Attendance System (AEBAS) :

The purpose AEBAS system is to enable an employee with an Aadhaar Number, to mark his/her attendance in the government offices through Biometric Authentication device. For this purpose, Authentication Tablets/Desktop Authentication devices will be installed in each offices of the Central Ministries/Departments.

NIC Ludhiana was the first department in district Ludhiana to implement AEBAS. Later NIC Ludhiana provided technical support to all the Centre Govt departmnts like Custom and Central Excise, Income Tax, CIPHET, EPF, Jt DGFT, MERADO, ATI and other central Govt departments to implement this AEBAS.

AEBAS is running successfully in all the departments (where installed and implemented). For more details please visit https://attendance.gov.in/

Dak Monitoring System (DMS) :

Dak Monitoring System (DMS) prepared by NIC is used for the monitoring of the daily daks received/send in the department. NIC Ludhiana implmented the DMS for various offices like Deputy Commissioner Office Ludhiana, SSP Office Khanna etc.

PB-PGRAMS :

NIC Ludhiana is providing technical support to all the departments on the PB-PGRAMS web portal . This portal is developed for making the Online complaints against the department. Applicant can file the complaint online and then can further check the status of its complaint at any time using this web portal. For more details please visit http://publicgrievancepb.gov.in/

Video Conferencing :

Video Conferencing Facility started in the NIC District Centre in January 2005. This brings the decision makers and action takers together, face to face, wherever they are across the country and around the Globe. Experts from remote locations can interact with each other in real time interactive mode. By providing strong channels of visual, graphical and multimedia communication, video-conferencing opens new vistas of functioning of government and service delivery mechanism is enabled for various sectors of Indian economy.

NIC is also conducting the video conferencing sessions related with the RTI cases of CIC(Central Information commission ) and SICP (State Information Commission of Punjab).

AGMARKNET Software is implemented in all the market committees of district Ludhiana under different phases. For more details please visit http://agmarknet.gov.in/

District Treasury Office :

Ludhiana was the first district in Punjab to computerize Treasury Office. NIC had fully computerized the District Treasury Office, Ludhiana. All treasury works like Bills, Accounts, data transfer, receipt, Pension, daily data from banks, maintaining of budget etc. were computerized successfully in 2001.

District Social Security Office :

Government of Punjab is giving monthly pensions to Old Age persons, Widows, Dependent children and Disabled persons. More then One lakh beneficiaries are there in District Ludhiana. NIC has successfully computerized all the pension details since 1994 which results in the timely distribution of the pension to the beneficiaries. This will drastically reduce the work of District Social Security Office. Now the new system is going to be implemented by which one can get the status of his/her application at any time from the District Social Security Department. Stamp Module is the latest addition to the above package.

NIC Ludhiana is also assisting to the departments like CIPHET, GADVASU, School of IT(PAU)under the NKN Project. These departments have 100 mbps lease line connectivity under the NKN project.

Online Status :

NIC Ludhiana is also assisting the District Administration to provide the Online Status of various services like SUWIDHA , PENSION,INTKAL etc on this website . User can check his/her status of the required service under the tab Online status at Home Page of this website.

Elections Software :

All the technical work like Data compilation , Data entry , authenticity of data, Polling Duties of the staff, Various Reports(like individual order, Party list, Department list, order for reserved staff, consolidated party order), Affidavits’ scanning, Randomization of polling staff, Randomization of the EVM machines, Result etc for various elections of Vidhan Sabha, Lok Sabha, Panchayat, Zila Parishad etc is done with the assistance of NIC for several years. NIC’s DISE (District Information System for Elections)approved by the Election Commission of India, is used for elections.

Internet and E-mail Connectivity to user department :

NIC Ludhiana also providing E-mail and Internet Connectivity to various Central Government and State Government Departments/Offices.

Networking plan :

National Informatics Centre’s NICNET is one of the biggest networks in any country. Each district centre has VSAT installed for the Internet & E-mail facility. District Centres are now equipped with Lease Line connectivity through BSNL.

Training :

NIC Ludhiana also imparting training to Various Government Offices (Central/State) from Time to time. Till Now More than 300 Employees have been trained by this office . The Primary training is on the Computer fundamentals and Software for the Office/branch , for NIC projects.

Headquarter also imparting training to various Central/State departments from time to time.

SARTHI and VAHAN :

NIC has developed these two softwares SARTHI and VAHAN at National level for the Computerization of the Driving Licenses and Registration of the Vechiles. SARTHI and VAHAN Softwares successfully implemented for Regional Transport Authority (RTA), Ludhiana.

Computerization of the Ludhiana Central Jail. :

NIC has computerized the Ludhiana Central Jail , on the outline of Tihar Prisons. Central Jail Ludhiana was taken as a pilot Jail in Punjab for the computerization. Under the Computerization of the Central Jail Ludhiana, NIC has implemented two softwares namely Prison Management System (PMS) and the Visitor Management System (VMS) . Both these softwares are running successfully in the Ludhiana central Jail.

After the implementation of these s/w’s The Prisoner’s information is now globally available to all the prisons, police and intelligence and central agencies for various other purposes throughout the country. For more information please visit: https://eprisons.nic.in/NPIP/public/DashBoard.aspx

National Animal Disease Reporting System(NADRS) :

NIC Ludhiana has implemeted the NADRS project for the department of Animal Husbandry, In the first phase, all the NADRS sites (district and at block level) were prepared with the establishment of dedicated computer network (with BSNL connectivity)with linking of each block to the district HQ. Each district hq to the state hq and futher state hq to the country ‘s central unit has been envisaged.This electronic data transmission will result in quick data compilation and report generation . NADRS application contains modules like scheme monitoring , disease reporting, block MIS, NADRS portal and animal disease diagnostic lab’s workflow etc.

Mother and Child tracking System(MCTS) :

NIC along with NRHM Punjab implemented mother and child tracking system (MCTS)under e-mamta project to the health and family welfare department of punjab. In MCTS application online data entry of pregnant women , temporary migrant pregnant mother and child registration & immunization was done and it also generates various kind of work plan and reports based on different parameters.

Technical Support to the District Administration and Central Govt deprtments :

NIC Ludhaina is regularly providing IT support to the Disrtict Administraton and Central Govt departments on various Technical Events/Issues.